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J. E. LANGDON.

POWDER AND SHOT MEASURE.

No. 289111 1. Patented Nov. 2'7, 1883.

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JAMES E. Li NGDON, OF TOBRINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION HARDW'ARE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE- rowers AND sHoT MEASURE.

LPEQIFIGATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,111, dated November 27, 1883, Application filed February 6,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. LANGDON, of Torrington, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Powder and Shot Measures, and the following is declared to be a description of the same.

Telescopic measures for powder and shot have heretofore been mad e, and are well known and in use by sporting men and others. These telescopic measures consist of one tube sliding within another, the outer tube having a socket attached to it for the wooden handle, and being provided on each side with-a slot, one edge of which is serrated. This outer tube on each side is numbered, one side indicating drams of powder and the other side ounces of shot. The inner tube is closed at one end, and providcd with afalse bottom and with small projecting pins in its sides, which are in the slots outer tube opposite the pin.

lily measure for powder and shot indicates in drains the quantity of. powder, and in ounces the quantity of shot; but I aim to provide a measure equally effective, but more compact in form, more easily adjusted, and less liable to become changed while in use; and to that end I employ telescopic tubes, the outer one having a socket for the wooden handle, notches in its lower edge, and I attach to said outer tube near its lower edge-a nut or projection having a set-screw through it. The inner tube has a bottom of thicker metal, with a milled edgefor grasping with the fingers, and said inner tube has a spiral depression rolled in its surface, and the set-screw, before named, bears in this depression, and as the inner tube is turned, the spiral depression working on the set-screw raises or lowers the inner tube. The inner tube is marked around with figures and perpendicular lines along the line of the spiral and on an imaginary intermediate line, and as the inner tube is revolved, these figures become visible through notches that are provided in the lower part'ofthe outer tube, and they indicate on one side the number of drains of powder, and on the other side the number of ounces of shot.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the measure partially closed. Fig. 2 is an elevation at the opposite side, and with the measure elongated; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the measure and part of the handle.

The outer tube, a, has a socket, b, for the end of the wooden handle 0, and there are notches (Z c, the notch d for powder and e for shot. I secure the nut f to the outer tube, a, and the set-screw 9 passes through the same. The inner tube, h, has its bottom a of metal, preferably thicker than said tube, and the outer edge or rim of thebottom is milled or serrated, as shown, so that it can be grasped by the fin gers when turned. The spiral groovek is made in the tube h by bending in the sheet metal by a roller or otherwise, and the set-screw g, entering said groove, retains theinner tube in place and acts to raise and lower said inner tube when the same is turned by the fingers, in use. This groove being bent into the sheet metal is very easily made, and it does not extend tothe top of the inner tube; hence the groove is not open at the upper end, powder cannot get into the same, and the two parts of the measure cannot become separated, because thescrew stops against the end of the groove. The numbers indicating the quantity of powder and shot are marked on the inner tube in spiral form, and are visible in the respective notches, and they denote the capacity of the measure at the respective places.

I do not claim a measure composed of telescopic tubes, one within the other, and a spiral groove turned into the metal of the inner tube. This, howerer, is expensive, and not adapted to the small tubes employed in measures for powder and shot.

I, claim as my invention 1. Apowder and shot measure formed of an exterior tube with a handle on one side, an inner metallic tube having a metallic bottom, and aspiral groove bent into the metal at the sides, but not extending to the upper end, and receiving a projection upon the exterior tube, substantially as set forth.

2. A powder and shot measure formed of an exterior tube with a handle at one side, an interior tube with a metallic bottom, the edge of which projects and is milled, so as to be grasped and revolved within the exterior tube, a spiral groove bent in the metal of the inner tube, but I 5 not extending to the upper end, a projection passing into the same, and spiral lines of division-marks upon the surface of the inner tube, substantially as specified.

v Signed by me this 23d day of January, A. D. 20 1883..

, JAMES E. LANGDON.

W'itnesses: M. B. DUNBAR, J. F. CALHO N. 

